Loose insert from Douglas Dunn,St. Kilda's parliament

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

  • Reference
    • GB 133 NBK/72
  • Alternative Id.
      (Book Accession Number) GB 133 R164126
  • Dates of Creation
    • 24 Feb 1983
  • Physical Description
    • 1 sheet

Scope and Content

Loose material from Douglas Dunn, St. Kilda's parliament (London: Faber and Faber, 1981), consisting of a letter to Nicholson from Dunn, relating to: his sympathy on the death of Nicholson's wife; the death of his own wife two years previously and his methods of coping; his gratitude for Nicholson's praise of St. Kilda's parliament; his review of Nicholson's Selected poems, and his admiration for poetry like Nicholson's that grows from a rootedness in place, also mentioning in this context the work of George Mackay Brown, and Irish poets like Kavanagh, Heaney, Longley and Murphy; and a programme for Nicholson's play The old man of the mountains which Dunn discovered in a copy of Nicholson's book Man and literature a few years previously.

Dated at: Hull, [Humberside]; typescript with autograph. Inserted inside front cover.